Administrative Management Theory Advantages and Disadvantages

STRENGTH 1. It is the most omnibus(prenominal) administrative management possibleness Henri Fayols theory is extremely comprehensive as a way to deal with management techniques. It is also the most used because it has been provento work. Its world comprehensive as it covers justabout anythingone might need to do in a management position to ensure success.WEAKNESSES 1. It is still based on humanapplication The weaknesses to the theory are that it is still based on human being.As humans we are naturally going to makemistakes. The theoryworks onthe basis of having harmony among nation in which unity forms to create a strong management team. However, whenmistakesare made it can undermine the entire loudness of the team. Furthermore, if a person is found to be false and will notadmitit, more problems can ensue. This is the same weaknesses of any system that relies on humans to be in control given various factors like personality and thatmistakescan be made.2. Reliance on experience Many of the writers in the management developed their ideas on the basis of their experiences as managers or consultants with only certain types of organizations. For instance, Fayols work came primarily from his experiences with large manufacturing firms that were experiencing stable environments. It may be unwise to popularize from those situations to others especially to young, high-technology firms of today that are confronted daily with changes in their competitors products.3. Untested assumptions Many of the assumptions made by classical writers were based not on scientific tests that on value judgments that expressed what they believed to be proper life-styles, moral codes, and attitudes toward success. For instance, the classical approaches seem to deal the life of a worker as beginning and finale at the plant door. Their basic assumption is that workers are primarily motivated by money and that they work only for more money.They also assume that productiveness is the b est measure of how well a firm is performing. These assumptions fail to recognize that employees may have wants and needs unrelated to the workplace or may view their jobs only as a necessary evil4. Unintended consequences Administrative management approaches aim at achieving high productivity, at fashioning behaviors predictable, and at achieving fairness among workers and mingled with managers and workers, yet they fail to recognize that several unintended consequences can occur in practice.For instance, a heavy emphasis on rules and regulations may cause people to obey rules blindly without remembering their original intent. Oftentimes, since rules establish a minimum level of performance expected of employees, a minimum level is all they achieve. mayhap much more could be achieved if the rules were not so explicit.My take is that when he talks about advantages and disadvantages of administrative management he is talking very specifically about administrative rule making author ity.Most administrative agencies have little or no rule making authority (FBI, DOJ, BATF), these exercise purely executive director power. Some have been given tightly constrained rule making authority.A few, such as the EPA have been given fairly broad rule making authority. That can be come a problem.Again, the complexities of modern life that gave rise to the Los Angeles smog problem are well documented. The EPA and its regulations made my air healthier. Id say that was being reasonable.Yes, they were being reasonable back then. The stopped being reasonable some time around the mid 1990s. The problem is when their managers salaries are determined by their budget and number of employees, how do you get them to recognize when its time to stop? How do you get them to admit that while yes, continuing to enforce the existing rules is important, there is, as with all things, a point of diminishing returns where each new rule does more harm than good.REFERENCES1. http//www.vectorstudy .com/management_schools/classical_school.htm2. http//www.vectorstudy.com/management_gurus/henri_fayol.htm3.http//www.vectorstudy.com/management_schools/classical_school.htm